Smooth Weekend

Logan has had an awesome weekend! He is off all IV medications. He is getting trials of CPAP. Basically he is in training for a marathon. Over the last two days, they have been giving him warm ups where he drives the breathing. So far so good!

Tomorrow ENT will come and do the first trach change. This means they will change out the plastic piece that is seen sticking out of his neck. At that time they will take a sneak peek at the surgical site to make sure it is healing well. It is a very quick and easy process and shouldn't bother Logan too much. At least nothing a little Tylenol, Ativan, and methadone can't fix!

As for the rest of the week, more warm ups off the ventilator until he is ready for the marathon. I don't think it will take long to get to that point. We take a class to learn how to take care of the trach. And from there I have no idea. I think at that point we will be looking close to be heading home.

Logan still has his days and nights mixed up! He has been giving the night shift nurses some grief. It is hard because I know what he needs when he is upset, space to kick it out! Unfortunately a crib and a kid hooked to a ventilator don't mesh well with that idea. Darn it! I am anxiously waiting to hold him again. Hopefully tomorrow.

For those who plan to visit us at the hospital, we are still in the PICU but were changed to another room. We have out-stayed our neighbors, and when I say this I mean more than a handful of kids have come and gone from the rooms around us. They sure know how to move the kids through. It is amazing how resilient children are. They come in intubated, extubated two days later and the next day transferred to a med/surg unit. So we had to move as they could not leave us to our lonesome at the end of the hall. Now I am close to the ice machine. That was the highlight of my night!

Tonight I hope for some good rest. The nurses aren't the only ones he keeps up at night. He likes to pop off his vent tubing from time to time and loves to pull all sorts of other shenanigans to make his vent alarm. Lets just say, I'm not amused! So off to bed and ready for the week ahead!